As the commissioner of fantasy skating, I admit that omitting Pang and Tong from the game this week is a little bizarre. However, there is no one else is the field who is in their league, and the other seven entries fall neatly into three "pools." While it was not my preference to leave them out, doing so was the fairest thing to do.

Blind faith in Tomas Verner, and lucked out picking the dance teams who finished the competition. It really stinks when you pick a skater/team that withdraws, happened to me in the past. I like that the FSU game lets you go down your list so your score is not devastated by a withdrawal.

So far, 4 of my skaters have withdrawn mid-competition (all three dance teams this weekend + Voronov a couple weeks ago). I've fallen from top 5 overall to 200th something place. I wish the computer could just select a different pick at random when someone withdraws so that all our other picks don't go to complete waste. I applaud everyone who gets through this entire season without one of your picks withdrawing and sucking all the fun out of it for you.

My rankings have been so random this year! I've had the following rankings through the GP series: 207T, 100T, 22T, 87T, and now I'm at 58 all by myself. I'm either decent in my picks or really bad, LOL I am happy that I picked at least two dance teams who ended up part of the final five at CoR this weekend!

I hadn't even looked at the leaderboard till just now because my picks have been dismal this year. So I was pleasantly surprised to see that 81, 159, 95, 139, and 89 add up to 15th place overall. Fuzzy math.

Ugh, I missed the cutoff to submit my predictions for the last one... And I WAS in 37th place before that! DAMNIT!!!!!!

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Mail in an absentee ballot.

As long as you lose all points when a team withdraws, luck plays a huge part. I'd say this contest is at least 50% luck. The most important thing, I think, is not to take things too seriously and to just have fun. Whenever I submit my picks, I usually do it in less than 2 minutes. IOW, I don't sit and think real hard about any of them. Sometimes I end up doing half-decently, sometimes I bomb. But either way, at least I know I didn't waste a lot of time on the silly contest.